Core/Unit: Erm, so it turns out that releasing your spirit actually never set your death state to DEAD. It stayed as CORPSE. That's wrong, of course, but we didn't notice because zombie corpses.

Port From (https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/commit/fdb3f4159e5e7865429e5b7212fba1ef602e6839)

Source/Game/Entities/Player/Player.DB.cs

@@ -1045,7 +1045,9 @@ namespace Game.Entities
 
             if (!IsAlive())
             {
-                if (!result.IsEmpty() && !HasAtLoginFlag(AtLoginFlags.Resurrect))
+                if (HasAtLoginFlag(AtLoginFlags.Resurrect))
+                    ResurrectPlayer(0.5f);
+                else if (!result.IsEmpty())
                 {
                     _corpseLocation = new WorldLocation(result.Read<ushort>(0), result.Read<float>(1), result.Read<float>(2), result.Read<float>(3), result.Read<float>(4));
                     if (!CliDB.MapStorage.LookupByKey(_corpseLocation.GetMapId()).Instanceable())
@@ -1053,8 +1055,6 @@ namespace Game.Entities
                     else
                         RemovePlayerLocalFlag(PlayerLocalFlags.ReleaseTimer);
                 }
-                else
-                    ResurrectPlayer(0.5f);
             }
 
             RemoveAtLoginFlag(AtLoginFlags.Resurrect);
@@ -3188,6 +3188,10 @@ namespace Game.Entities
 
             GetSpellHistory().LoadFromDB<Player>(holder.GetResult(PlayerLoginQueryLoad.SpellCooldowns), holder.GetResult(PlayerLoginQueryLoad.SpellCharges));
 
+            uint savedHealth = health;
+            if (savedHealth == 0)
+                m_deathState = DeathState.Corpse;
+
             // Spell code allow apply any auras to dead character in load time in aura/spell/item loading
             // Do now before stats re-calculation cleanup for ghost state unexpected auras
             if (!IsAlive())
@@ -3200,7 +3204,7 @@ namespace Game.Entities
             UpdateAllStats();
 
             // restore remembered power/health values (but not more max values)
-            SetHealth(health > GetMaxHealth() ? GetMaxHealth() : health);
+            SetHealth(savedHealth > GetMaxHealth() ? GetMaxHealth() : savedHealth);
             int loadedPowers = 0;
             for (PowerType i = 0; i < PowerType.Max; ++i)
             {

Source/Game/Entities/Player/Player.cs

@@ -4100,6 +4100,7 @@ namespace Game.Entities
             GetMap().AddToMap(corpse);
 
             // convert player body to ghost
+            SetDeathState(DeathState.Dead);
             SetHealth(1);
 
             SetWaterWalking(true);

Source/Game/Handlers/CharacterHandler.cs

@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ namespace Game
             });
 
             // setting Ghost+speed if dead
-            if (pCurrChar.GetDeathState() != DeathState.Alive)
+            if (pCurrChar.GetDeathState() == DeathState.Dead)
             {
                 // not blizz like, we must correctly save and load player instead...
                 if (pCurrChar.GetRace() == Race.NightElf && !pCurrChar.HasAura(20584))